Short Film Essay: Race Within Australian Culture

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Race within Australian Culture.

Australia is made up of many races, cultures and beliefs. Since the first day a non-indigenous Australian stepped onto the land, we have been a multicultural society. Racism displays a social issue that all Australians are shamed of in Australian culture. Types of races, class and the fear that society presents indeed do affect racism within Australian culture.

Problem=White Caucasians abusing their power against other races in humanity.
Solution=Australia's culture of racism needs to be turned to be more positive rather than negative.
The stereotypical Australian males are commonly placed to be the most racist ones. For example in Checkpoint, the short film. It presents a scene where the soldiers, Australian males are being racist. The pretending white male soldiers question the Lebanese male driver. “Where are you from”, “I'm from Sydney”, “No
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The boss drinks tea and over looks his workers with with great superiority. The workers consist of another race of people from New Zealand. The creators of the short film have placed the boss to be this white Caucasian to demonstrate this race as always being the upper class. However they do than challenge this idea when they place a white caucasian male who is the bottom on the heir-achy chain out of the shearing workers. On another perspective, in the film Man there is a lack of appearance of Australian indigenous workers. As I personally know, the indigenous Australians played a key role in the shearing workforce. This can also be conveyed to be racist as it presents white Australians to dominate the workforce industry. I believe other races such as Indigenous Australians should be encouraged all Australians to take on a business. Recently the Western Australian Government recently bought a station next to a Coral Bay, to employ Indigenous Australians who are wanting to manage and work on a cattle